MichelletheRN

MichelletheRN has 20 years experience and specializes in Med/surg.

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1. Mistakes Are Inevitable: No One Is Perfect.

   MichelletheRN replied to Ruby Vee's topic in Professionalism

   They should never make someone afraid to admit a mistake. All that will do is force people to lie out of fear. I can remember when we used to have to draw up our own saline flushes. We would draw it from a 50 cc bottle of saline, which had a green la...

2. How do you sign your credentials?

   MichelletheRN replied to heather717's topic in Professionalism

   I just put RN on things. What is funny is when i sign a check and accidentally put RN.

3. Patient Satisfaction Surveys

   MichelletheRN replied to MichelletheRN's topic in Relations

   I believe (and i could be wrong, but i don't think so) that nurses and doctors are not allowed to unionize in our state. This may include more health care workers, but i am almost certain at least these folks cannot. I guess i understand managers who...

4. Nursing imagination or reality?

   MichelletheRN replied to potatoz's topic in General Nursing

   It is interesting with alot of variety. Sometimes things get on my nerves, but for the most part we have a lot of fun. I enjoy the nurses and doctors i work with. I enjoy most of my patients, there are a few who irritate me, but for the most part, i ...

5. 2017 Nurse Salary

   MichelletheRN replied to Darkstar1485's topic in General Nursing

   RN with 20 years experience. Live in a small, midwestern town (nebraska). Rural environment, depressed economy (average income for a family or household is $40k, or even less). I eatn about $75k a year plus benefits, so roughly $90k-ish? My hourly ...

6. How to annoy irritating Drs.

   MichelletheRN replied to Avid reader's topic in Humor

   If it's someone I am friends with, that's one thing, i will joke around with other people when we are chatting or whatnot. I don't deliberately try to annoy anyone, though, and i hope they don't try to annoy me. But yes, my coworkers and i joke aroun...

7. Calling in for no sleep

   MichelletheRN replied to Nurse131382's topic in General Nursing

   Swing shifts are crappy. Thank God we don't do them on any kind of regular basis. I would not call in "tired", at least not saying that. If you are so tired you don't feel well, you could call in "ill". If you were sick to your stomach as you mentio...

8. 8 vs 12 hour shift?

   MichelletheRN replied to RN-Doula's topic in Relations

   I vastly prefer 12 hour shifts, and this is one, but not the only, reason that i am hesitant to leave bedside nursing and enter management even after many years. We do self scheduling, and when we are not short, about every 3rd or 4th weekend. So i l...

9. Why the double standard.

   MichelletheRN replied to RN2364's topic in Men

   I work with some very good nurses who happen to be men. Usually what i have observed is, that it is the PATIENT who wants the nurse to be female, not that the male nurse has any issue with doing whatever. And this is usually when it is an elderly fem...

10. It seems like everyone but nurses make more money

    MichelletheRN replied to rearviewmirror's topic in General Nursing

    I remember twenty years ago when i first graduated college and was an RN, getting 15 or 16 dollars an hour, and thinking i was living large! I was used to making minimum wage, so that seemed like a fortune by comparison. Idk, i am not really that up...

11. Sick policy vs. reality

    MichelletheRN replied to rquinn0111's topic in General Nursing

    We don't really have a set policy in place, to my knowledge. We don't seem to have any issues with excess absenteeism, though. The way ours is set up, you earn a set amount of vacation and a set amount of sick time each pay period, and these are hous...

12. How do you feel about having other nurses as patients?

    MichelletheRN replied to purplegal's topic in Relations

    It does not really bother me one way or the other to have a patient who is a nurse, physician, aide, therapist, etc. If anything, they are easier to take care of and far less demanding/more understanding than a typical patient. You can be more direct...

13. Patient Satisfaction Surveys

    MichelletheRN replied to MichelletheRN's topic in Relations

    I guess the part of it i find most offensive is the lack of even a pretense of respect, the "guilty until proven innocent" thing. I don't understand why the actual floor nurses, PAs, and doctors can understand what a load of crap it is, but the admin...

14. Scrubs Seem Cut Different The Past Couple of Years

    MichelletheRN posted a topic in Uniform/Gear

    I really like some of the new material which is stretchy a bit or has some sheen to it. I think, though, that they are cut ALOT different. Tops are shorter in length, tighter in the chest, as well as the hips. I don't notice it as much with pants, bu...

15. Patient Satisfaction Surveys

    MichelletheRN posted a topic in Relations

    Do you think it is ever going to get better? Or will it just get more and more picky and petty? I have long believed surveys are useful, but must be taken with a grain of salt instead of as gospel truth. For one, frequently the ones filling out surv...